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VOL. V.
ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 21, 1884.
NO. 16.
THE COLUMBIAN.
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EPIGRAMS.
IHK I-AWYKR TO nisrr.IKST, MR.MORSB
I hopo I shall not full from grace
If I decline to plead your case.
No lawyer should pursue a course
V hlch he must docket in lie Monte.
OS A PLOW VrAITKR,
They call you "waiter." but I vow
That no mistake is greater:
So tilueg-ishly you move about,
Tis 1 who am the trotter.
A VISITOR.
A tcr-itlc rapping I heard at my door.
And I trembled for fear of a dun or a bore:
ilut I found that 1 had been mistaken for once.
It wasn't a dun, it was only a dunce.
OS A FASHIONABLE WIFE.
1 thought her a beautiful creature, i
And dearly I bought btr with gold;
Rut there's one disagreeable feature
- Twas nd not he that was tmld.
lien Wood Davis, in The Continent,
THE LOST LETTER.
They Are standing on the veranda;
he is bidding her good-night.
"I am going away; Miss Legrange,"
he says, looking earnestly into her face
"Indeed! for long?" There is no
tremulousness of tone nor heightened
color.
He is disappointed; he has hoped
that she would show some reluctance
.to part with him. "Six months or a
Year, perhaps forever," he adds, a little
bitterly.
She is startled, but she is calm and
quiet when she answers: "We will all be
sorry to lose you."
"YV'ill you be sorry. Miss Rose?" he
questions, directly.
"Why of course; have we not. been
good friends?"
"Friends'.yes; but well, good-night.
May 1 call again and say good-bye? I
do not start until Monday.'
Something seems to fill her throat
and choke Tier; she does not answer,
but turns suddenly and run3 down the
steps. She pauses before a white rose
bush, .growing beside the, walk, and
picks one; when she returns to him she
has gained her self-control.
iicio is a fuse iii jvsui vubkwuuiic ,
what was it yon said ? 'shall you come
- and bid us good-bye?1 We should feel
very much hurt if you did not." She
says all this in an easy running tone,
perfectly free f ronf emotion.
As she gives him the rose, he takes
the hand that holds it, and kisses it
twice, then hurries away.
Fool that I was to suppose that she
cared for me," he mutters, as he strides
down the street. "What am I to do
now?" he asks himself as he unlocks
his door and enters his bachelor quar
ters "Will she, or will she not consent
to become Mrs. Lawrence? that is the
question." He fling himself into a
chair and puts his boots on the table.
-Mv scheme has worked far from satis
factorily ; nevertheless, if I fail, I will
go away, anyway; I can take a vaca
tion and go and see mother."
He gets up discontentedly and paces
the room. "By Jove! I have it! I'll
"write -to hcx.M. , - v : - -
Mi.hh Leo range: I cannot see you again
without telling you all that is in my heart.
M"ls useless for me to say good-bye without
saying more. Useless? Nay, impossible I You
can guess what I mean. If you wish me to
call again, send me one word, "Come." and 1
will be with you Saturday night. If you can
not say more than good-bye, do not reply to
this, and you will never be troubled again by
K. Lawrence.
"There, that will settle it. I'll go
and put it in the office to-night."
Saturday comes and goes,lut brings
no answer to Eugene Lawrence, wait
ing and watching for one word. He
builds high hopes in the morning, and
feels sure of success. But is with an
exceedingly heavy heart that he sees
the sun go down; still he does not re
linquish all hope for there may be some
delay. So he waits as patiently as he
can until Mondav, which wears itself
into night, without bringing him the
welcome message. He waits one more
day,- hoping against hope, but to no
purpose. Then he wearily packs his
belonging's ana leaves towu.
And Rose? Longingly she waits for
the good-bye visit, and wonders much
when he comes not.
Time passes, and in the early sum
mer Mrs. Legrange, Kose s mother.
dies, leaving Rose and her little brother
Harry to the care of an uncle, in a dis
tant city. Afterthe funeral Rose starts
for her uncle's, not knowing . what else
to do, but feeling sure that she will not
long remain dependent. Her father
has been dead many years, and it is his
brother to whom she is going.
Mr. Legrange receives them coldly.
and very soon makes them feel their
dependence. Rose's is a sensitive,
high-strung temperament, and she
thinks she could endure anything bet
ter than the petty slights and sneers to
which she is daily subjected in' her
uncle's house. She takes a small room
and obtains some sewing; the remuner
ation is very slight, but as nothing else
offers she is glad to get anything, by
which she can earn enough toT get
food for herself and Harry. But soon
her rent falls due and she has no means
to meet it She is wondering what she
shall do; she has just finished some
sewing for Mrs. Lawrence, but it is
Saturday night and nine o'clock, too
late for her to take it home, so she
abandons the thought of dinner to
morrow, and thinks Monday morning
the will give all her earnings to the
landlord, which will fall short of what
buc Kinns. uut war uuuaus yivc iier a
respite As she takes up Harry's little
-torn trowsers to mend, hen eyes tall
upon a neatly tied package, marked
"Mrs. Lawrence," and that name sends
her thoughts adrift, away back to an
other Saturday night when she had
watched and waited in vain, for the
coming of one of that name.
Presently she hears a man's step com
ing up stairs; her heart beats faster
and she holds her breath as it pauses
before the door; a second passes and
then comes a knock; she is timid about
opening the door. She half rises, then
sinks back, into her seat. The knock
is repeated. Shall she open the door?
Who can it be? The landlord, per
haps. With this thought she rises just
as the knock is again repeated. With
a ticmbling hand and scared face she
opens the door.
Her nerves are unstrung, and she al
most screams aloud as she beholds Eu
gene Lawrence, but not quite.
, "I have come for some sewing of my
mother's." he begins, stepping across
the threshold; the light is in his face,
and he has not recognize! her.
She closes the door without turning
around, trying to keep her face from
him, but as she has eaten nothing since
the day before, her step is rather un-
certain, and she staggers forward as her
hand leaves the knob; he spriugs toward
her and catches her arm.
"Rose Legrange! Is it possible?" he
exclaims, in consternation.
"At your service," she returns, trying
to speak lightly, but sinking wearily in
a chair.
"Has it come to this?" he asks, look-
ins around the room.
I am not ashamed to work," she
says proudly.
"No, no! not ashamed to! O, but
that you should be obliged! Will you
tell me about yourself and how you
came berer
"Be seated, please. If vou care to
hear, I will tell you," and she -resumes
her mending involuntarily. There is
not much to tell," she begins; she has
been sewing a button on Harry's pants;
something drops out of the pocket ana
falls on the floor1,, and as she discovers
a hole in the pock'et she Empties it in
or.Ier to mend it. . She takes out some
twine, marbles, .an old key, nails and
many other old traps, and at the very
bottom a bit of crumpled, dirty paper;
she lays them on the table and resumes
her sewing and her story.
He picks it up mechanically and ab
sentlv smooths it out. It is a letter.
sealed and stamped. Suddenly he be-
name of "Miss Rose Legrange," in his
own handwriting. He hastily tears it
open and reads his own letter to her
written over a year ago.
She is surprised at his behavior.
"Mr. Lawrence, you forget yourself,
she savs.
"Will tou be kind enough to read
that letter," he exclaims, excitedly, "it
is evident it never reached you.
She takes it worideringly, reads it
slowly, then looks inquiringly into his
eager face.
"Do you understand?" he asks, im
ploringly.
"Hardly," she returns; then -reads it
over; a light seems to break upon her,
for the tell-tale color rushes into her
face and betrays her.
"Had you received it when it was
due, what would, you have said.-"
"Come," she whispers.
"My darling! my darling," he ex
claims, folding her in his arms.
She falls limp upon his breast.
"What have I done! have I killed
her?" he cries in alarm.
"No," she answers faintly, " I am
only faint and weak, it will pass pres
ently."
"What is it? what is the matter?"
"Nothing, nothing ! I have had
nothing to eat since yesterday, and
have been working all day, and l am a
little dizzy; that is all."
"Great heavens! that is enough! You
shall go to my mother to-night. I will
not leave you again alone. O, that
you should have come to this through
me. iool that I was not to have spoken
when I saw you, not to have trusted to
luck."
She smiled at his rchetsaonce.
"Do you know, darling, it was all a
ruse, my going away r I just told you
that to see n you cared, and 1 thought
you didn't.
"Did you thiuk I would let yon see,
if I did care?"
"And you missed me?"
"It almost broke my heart.'
"O, what an idiot I have been."
"I am strong now," she says, releas
ing herself from his embrace.
"And you will go with me?" he ques
tions.
"Yes," she answers, confidingly.
"But wait, I will wake Harry, we must
take him.
"I suppose so," he returns, laughing;
"the little heathen, keeping that letter
hidden away in his pocket for over a
year."
When they are going home they ques
tion Harry about the letter, but he re
members nothing of it. After much
thinking he does recall one morning
when the postman gave him a letter to
take into the house, and he put it into
his pocket and forgot it.
"If we had not oeen so poor,", says
Kose, . laughinglv, those old clothes
would have been thrown away long ago
and the letter with them. Arkansaw
Traveler.
A Swindling Builder or Old.
The operations at Peterborough Ca
thedral, England, prove that a fraudu
lent builder is no new thing. The
wall of the tower, while -possessing a
spacious face of good stone blocks.
had within nothing more substantial
than loose bits of stone and dry rub-
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oisn. a ne supporting piers Deiow, aiso,
which ought to have been solid as the
rock itself, were found precisely simi
lar in construction, down even to the
foundations, where, to the increased
amazement of the explorers, a still
more flagrant specimen of mediaeval
"jerry" work was encountered. Cor
rectly speaking, there never had been
any foundations to these piers at all,
their lower courses having been simply
bedded on a layer of loose, rubble chips
and sand, these in their turn resting
upon natural gravel only. There is
rock a foot or two lower down, but,
strange to say, no advantage was
taken of this circumstance,' though it
must certainly have been within the
knowledge of the old builders. These
discoveries compelled the condemna
tion of the two western piers, which at
first it had been the design to spare on
account of their seeming soundness
The same indications of grossly slov
enly work were revealed in the removal
of these also, and the foundations
were discovered to be equally worth
less. London World.
It is not generally known that the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers claims to be one of the
largest associations in the world. Ac
cording to some of the reports the mem
bership is about 100,000, which directly
and indirectly controls and influences
nearly 1,000,000 workingmen. At one
time the organization was said to have
$.'575,000 in its treasury, but the strikes
of the last two years have depleted it
considerably. Pittsburgh Post.
r At Gloucester, N. J., a pear-tree is
still bearing fruit that was brought in a
flower-pot from England before 1G97 by
Captain Samuel Harrison and planted
in his garden.. Captain Harrison's
father lost his life as a regicide on the
restoration of Charles II.- JV. Y. Mail.
The best backing a young man can
have is a good backbone of his own.
PERSONAL ASD LtfPERSONAL.
The oldest living graduate of West
Point is Prof. John II. Hewitt, of Balti
more. He is eighty-nine years old, and
was a member of the class of 1818. JV.
Y. Herald.
Simon Knowles, of Meredith, N.
II.. though in his ninety-ninth year, still
daily works at his trade as a shoemaker
and promises to last out his century.
Boston I'ost.
Thackeray's name was derived
from the occupation of his ancestors
thackers or thatchers. Whittier's name
came from white tawler, tanner of white
kid leather. Chicago Tribune.
David Furthermore, Charles Fancy
and Anonymous lliggms were- three
men with odd names who happened to
come together in the town of Home,
Ga., the other day. St. Louis Globe.
Since the publication of the fact
that Queen V ictoria has a loudness lor
fried hominy, the London hotels have
begun to print on their bills of tare:
"Fried hominy, Her Majesty's style."
The Newburyport family of the
Arctic explorer spell their name Greeley,
and the Lieutenant also is said to write
it so, but the Government officials insist
on spelling it Greely all the same.
Boston Journal.
The Grace Darling of Canada is
Miss Emily O'Neil, of Montreal, who
saved two boys from drowning recently.
During the last four years she has saved
no less than ten lives by her courage
and ability to swim.
President Arthur's state dinners
last winter are said to have surpassed
those given bv any of his predecessors
in costliness. The nine he gave last
season averaged eighty hundred dollars
each. Clticago Journal.
Rev. William Nealeigh, of Darke
County, Ohio, and Mrs. Rachel Thomas,
of Sedalia, Mo., were married at Indian
apolis, Ind., recently. They are each
seventy-three years old, and were lovers
in their school days. Indianapolis
Jourw.l.
The President is paid his salary by
the United States Treasurer's draft, is
sued on the warrant of the Secretary of
the Treasury, based on an account "au
dited by the First Auditor and First
Comptroller of the Treasury. Wash
ington Star,
Wah Sin Lee, a Chinaman, who has
saved over $15,000 in the laundry busi
ness, has appliea for admission to the
Cornell University. He says that he has
been converted to Christianity, and that
he intends to go out as a missionary to
China. Buffalo Express.
On appeal from the Jews in Jerusa
lem the Sultan has annulled the . sale of
a part of the Mount of Olives, which
contains the graves of the prophets
Haggai, Zachariah and Malachi. The
purchasers were the Russian priesthood.
The burial place of the prophets has
been secured to the Jews in perpetuity.
Secretary of the Navy Chandler has
issued a general order concerning the
Arctic relief expedition. He says:
"The Navy Department extends its cor
dial and earnest congratulations to
Commander Schley, commanding the
expedition, and to the officers and men
of his command, upon the distinguished
success of their efforts, and takes this
occasion to publicly commend the cour
age, zeal and judgment with which they
executed their difficult and dangerous
duty."
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"A LITTLE X0SSESSE."
"The Pies My Mother Made" is a
new song, it is said, but it is not. Ev
ery young husband has sung it for the
last two centuries. Philadelphia Call.
"Was the assault made with pre
meditation?" asked Judge Norton of a
witness. "No, Yer Honor, it was made
with a clothes' loin!" Chicago Journal.
"Will the coming man be happier?"
asks a writer. It depends to a great
extent upon whether his wife has got
tired and gone to sleep or is" still wait
ing up for him. Chicago Tribune.
"Parson, will you join us to receive
the congratulations of our friends this
evening?" was the naive manner in
which . a gentle maid settled courtship
and marriage at one stroke. Waterloo
Observer.
"Yes," sighed Amelia, "before
marriage George professed to be willing
to die for me, and now he won't even
get his life insured in my favor," and
the poor girl burst into a fashionable
flood of tears. Burlington Hawkeye.
Which is the shortest way to the
menagerie?" asked a stout old gentle
man of Gilhooley who was walking in
Central Park. "Want to see the ani
mals, do you?" "Ye3, I should like to
see the animals." "H you want to see
them to the best advantage you had bet
ter try my plan." "What's thatP"
"Eat a mince pie before going to bed."
Texas Sif tings.
"So you struck the man because he
called you a liar?"said the Police Judge.
"Yes sir." "From which I am to infer
that you were not a liar?" "Oh, no;
I was a liar, and am yet- If I had not
been a liar 1 should have paid no at
tention to the fellow's remarks. Truth
is so scarce, Judge, that when I hear it
I can't keep down my enthusiasm."
Arkansaw Traveler.
"So you would like to become a
blacksmith, would you?" he said to a
little barefoot boy, as he stopped blow
ing the bellows for a moment. "Yes,
sir," the boy replied. "I would like to
learn the trade." "Are you strong and
healthy?" "Yes sir." "And quick?"
I wouldn't have a boy around who
wasn't quick. "Yes, I'm quick." Here
the boy stepped his bare foot on a hot
horsesuoe.and the blacksmith remarked:
'Well, 1 guess I II give-you a trial.
You seem to be one of the quickest lit
tle boys I ever saw." N. Y. Sun.
A widow who - has had a box at the
post-office for the last year or two called
at that institution yesterday and--informed
the chief clerk that she desired
to change her box. "Lock out of or
der?" "Oh. no." "Isn't the box con
venient?" "Oh, certainly, but I've just
moved . from Ninth avenue to Third
street and I that is why, how stupid
1 am! , was thinking I'd have to change
my oost-offi.ee box, too! I can keep the
same box, of course. AH I need to
change is my door-plate. I knew I'd
have to change something or other.
Excuse me good morning. V Detroit
Free Press. - . ' I
Cuisine and Table Manners of the Moors.
The cooking one meets with in a
Moorish house is very peculiar, and, I
may say, also, very indigestible. They
have three different ways of cooking
everything by trying, baking in earthen
pots and steaming, together with, in
the case oi soup, oomng. iae meais
served being usually three in number,
consisting of a light breakfast in the
morning, at which is served hot milk,
coffee and bread and butter. The hot
milk is quite nice, it being sweetened
and having boiled iirit an herb which
gives to it a flavor very like cinnamon,
which I, at first, thought it was. The
coflee is like all Turkish, sweetened
when boiling, the berry being ground
very tine," you getting, in consequence,
many of the grounds, My host always
flavored his with a little dash of orange
flower water. The bread was bet
ter than is usually met with in
Morocco, the flour from which it
was made being ground and sifted in
his own mill. The butter was on my
account, fresh, the Moors liking theirs
as rancid as possible, burying it in the
ground in stone jars, and leaving it to
season as long as four years. Some of
it is made of sheep or goat milk, and
is very white, having a not unpleasant
flavor. Lunch was about the same as
dinner, only the courses fewer. For
dinner soup was served as the first
course, and was ordinarily very nice;
a steamed dish of meat, usually mut
ton, then followed, or a sort of stew,
the whole swimming in butter, very
rich and indigestible; fi9h next, fried
in cooking; this was shad of the very
finest description, more excellent and
larger than those in our country, their
size, fatness and flavor being incredi
ble to believe. Chicken baked in but
ter came next, finally sweets and cof
fee; the sweets not being very nice
too crude, as is all the rest of their cu
linary art. Wine, of course there was
none, the water we had being flavored
with orange flower blossoms, and
which we drank from the com
mon bowl. , Knives and forks we
had, also spoons, - soup plates,
meat plates and napkins, mine
host having learned the art of using
them in his travels. Such awkward
and unnecessary implements as knives
and forks to eat with the Moor despises.
He dips the soup from the common
bowl by means of a little wooden ladle
having a rounded-bottom eup, and in
it carrying the soup to his mouth, or
when eating, rolling up his flowing
sleeve, he dips his left hand into the
mess of meat, selecting apiece, putting
in on a plate, and by means of that
hand alone, breaks it up into pieces
and carries it to his mouth, the right
hand never being used. Between
courses he holds this hand carefully
away from everything, first having
licked it all over, in the most approved
canine fashion, and at the end of the
meal a large brass basin is passed
around, while a slave from a brass ket
tle pours over the hand, held over the
basin, hot water, which is dried off by
means of a towel. I have spoken of the
tea, and the way they drink it, the
noise made by a roomful of men drink
ing being almost deafening, those of
powerfuilungs sucking up a cup of tea
in one "pull? From this it can be
seen that the table manners of the
Moors are not exactly such as we are
accustomed to meet with amongst the
"first families," either in Europe or at
home. Cor. Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette.
Pawnbrokers' Signs
The pawnbrokers' insignia is under
stood to have its foundation in the arms
of the Medici family, a representative
of which went from Lombardy to Lon
don in the Middle Ages, and, being very
rich, set up business as a banker or
money lender. The arms of his family
consisted of three gilded pills, which
had direct allusion to their profession
of medicine. Beside being "doctors"
they were the richest merchants in Flor
ence and the greatest money lenders.
The branch of the family which settled
in London commenced business in Lom
bard Street.- Whether the family arms
were used as a sign to attract has not
been stated, but there seems to be no
question that this was the origin of the
three golden balls now used to indicate
the presence of pawn-broking estab
lishments. It is observed that the busi
ness of lending money on pawns was
carried on in England by Italian mer
chants or bankers as early, at least, as
the reign of Richard I. By the 12 Ed
ward 1., a messuage was confirmed to
these traders, where Lombard Street
now stands, but the trade was first rec
ognized in law by James I. The name
Lombard, according to Stow, is a con
traction of Longobards. The Lombard
bankers exorcised a monopoly of pawn-
broking till the reign of Queen Eliza
beth. Another interpretation of the
three balls signs is that it indicates that
the pawn-broker exacts two-thirds col
lateral as security for the one-third
which he lends to the borrower. It has
been otherwise dubbed "the two to one"
business. Brooklyn Eagle.
'Working the Press. ,y
"What sort of a season did you
have?" asked the old oyster of the little
strawberry.
"t'retty fair, 1 thank you, sir," po
litely replied the strawberry.
"Did you get many press notices?"
"O, yes, sir; any number of them."
"Not as many as ice cream, though.
That fellow hogs the whole press.
Why. he is dissrusting the people with
his puffs that I dorr t suppose I'll be
able to get a single line in for my Sunday-school
festival stews next season
without paying for it," growled the old
oyster.
"Yes. sir: I perfectly agree with
you," responded the little strawberry.
1 he way some of them work the press
is perfectly disgusting. There is the
little green apple "
"O, don t mention himr cnea tne
old, oyster. "He's too low. I never
saw a notice of him in a better
role than a small boy's stomach!"
Philadelphia Chronicle-Telegraph.
-A Wfiw Vorlr Trmnnfuntlirer of' tri-
cycles says that in England there are
now over ou.uuu oi tne mree-wueciou.
machines in use. . lie believes that it
will in time supercede thebicycle, as
being better adapted to country roads
and more easily managed. N. Y. Her
ald. "
Anvils.
Anvils for heavy work are generally
square blocks of -iron with steel faces,
although many in use are nothing more
than cast-iron blocks with chilled faces.
The quality of an anvil is of great im
portance to the mechanic who makes
use of.it, because it determines in some
measure the quality of the work he
produces. Anvils of the best character
are made almost entirely by hand, and,
as may be supposed, the operation is one
quite laborious. It is, indeed,; heavy
work.
Anvils vary in weight from ; 100 to
500 pounds. For their manufacture
two laree fires are required.! The
principal portion or core of the anvij,
consisting of a square block of ironis
heated to a welding heat at a certain
point or corner ' in one fire, and the
piece of iron which is to form a pro
jecting end is heated in another fire.
When both of the pieces have reached
the proper welding heat they are
brought together on an anvil and
are joined by heavy swinging hammers.
In this way the four corners of the base
are welded to the body in four heats.
After this the projection from the shank
hole and lastly the horn or beak are
welded to the core. When the anvile
has reached this stage the whole is
brought into proper snape by paring
and trimming for the reception of the
face. The steel used for this purpose
is, or at least ought to be, the best
kind of sheet metal. Instead of this,
however, blister steel and other grades
of inferior quality are very frequently
employed.
The'anvil and steel are heated until
they attain the proper temperature.
The two sides which are to be welded
are then sprinkled with calcined borax,
and are joined by quickly repeated
blows of the hand hammer.
The steel coating used to form the
faces in the best grades of anvils is a
half-inch thick. At the same time it
may be remarked that if the steel is
only a quarter of an inch in thickness
the difference is unimportant, provided
the steel be of good quality. The next
operation in the manufacture of the
anvil is hardening, which is accom-
ISLshed by heating it to redness and
ringing it under falling water. The
fall of water employed must be at
least the size of the face of the anvil,
and should be of not less than three
feet head. After the process of hard
ening it is smoothed upon a grindstone
and finally polished with emery.
Small anvils, such as are used by silver-smiths,
goldbeaters, etc., are pol
ished very finely, some of them until
they present a mirror-like face. On ac
count of the expensiveness of the oper
ations attending the manufacture of an
anvil, as above described, various ex
periments have been niade in the way
of producing this useful tool in cast
iron. .
The common anvils of the shops,
however, can not be made of cast-iron
for the reason that the beak would not
be strong enough. None but anvils
with full square faces have been suc
cessfully made of cast-Iron. Anvils of
this kind are either simply chilled by
casting the face in iron molds, or the
face is plated with cast-steel.
Chilled cast-iron anvils are objection
able, for the reason that they are quite
brittle and the corners of the faces will
not stand. Cast-iron anvils, made with
steel faces, however, are a superior
article, and in some respects preferable
to wrought-iron anvils. The face is
harder and stronger, although the
beaks will not last as long. Black-
smxlh and II hcclwright.
An Old Conductor's Yarn.
Talking of greenhorns,' said an
old conductor to me recently, "it s in
the older States one sees the greenest
of them. Fifteen years ago I was run
ning a passenger train down in Ken
tucky. One morning when the train
drew up at a little station a chap in
copperas-dyed breeches, blue jeans coat
and vest, and a home-made wool hat
addressed me as I stepped to the ground.
" 'Is you the clerk of this kyar?"
" 'I'm the conductor what do you
want?' I answered him.
" I want to go to Louisville on this
kyar.'
" Well, get aboard,' I told him. He
climbed the steps and knocked on the
door. When he had rapped a second
time some wag inside called out, 'Come
in'. There were at least forty passen
gers in the coach. He began at the
front seat, shaking hands with every
one clear to the back end, and asking
each 'How you do?' and then 'How's
your folks? Of course it was a regular
circus for the other passengers. He
lived thirty miles back in the mountains,
and had never been on a train before.
When he stepped off the cars at Louis
ville I felt sorry for him.
"Well, I left Kentucky soon after
that and came to Illinois. One day,
four years ago, while on a visit to Lou
isville, a well-dressed, well-to-do look
ing man stopped me on the street. He
had to tell me where I had ever seen
him before. Would you believe it? that
greenhorn had developed into one cf
the first merchants of Louisville, and is
to-day reputed to be worth $100,000."
Indianapolis Senjincl.
Balance in Character.
Few porsons are possessed of a per
fectly balanced nature. Amiability is
apt to be allied with weakness: a vigor
ous, pushing character is often impul
sive, harsh ana unjust. A renective
mind is slow to act; a prompt .mind is
often wrong. So through all the ele
ments of character. All the qualities
that go to make up a perfect moral na
ture rarely appear in one person. The
physical and intellectual do not pre
cisely conform; the mental and moral
are not evenly balanced, mere are
those possessed of stronger moral than
mental natures. They constitute the
spasmodic, impulsive element in socie
ty. There are others whose intellects
so absolutely control their moral na
tures, that nothing is admitted mat can
not be reasoned out satisfactorily.
There are persons whose strong animal
natures dominate all elso, and both
mind and spirit are subservient.
To regulate all these parts so as to
attain a fair degree of equality is the
right step toward securing what may
be called balance in character. Phila
delphia Call.
She Understood All About- Base Ball.
"I want to go to the base-ball game.
said a Cleveland j young lady to her
feller. ' . . !
'You!" he exclaimed, in amazement
"You wouldn't know a base hit from a
passed ball, or a three-bagger from an
assist.'-' f .
"But, George, dear, 1 could learn.
You know-how soon I picked up that
hew embroidery stitch, and how quick
I am at everything." .
Well, there is no use in following her
argument. Every man has Deen
through it, first or last, and knows how
it always comes out. She went to the
game. George had been- used to sitting
in one of the side stands where he had
a favorite seat, and the privilege of
smoking and guying the umpire to his
heart's content. On this occasion he
sat primly up "behind a bwastly wire
screen,' as he mentally called it, and
prepared to suffer. The Cleveland
were at the bat. I :
"Which Clevelands are those in
gray?" asked Maude. "Why don't they
all dress alike?" i - - -
"Those are the Clevelands; the others
are the Bostons." '
"What are the Bostons doing here?
Did they come all ' this distance to see
the game?" j
".No; they are going to play.'
"I thought they were to see the
Clevelands play." ;
"Why, they both play.'
Oh, we're going to see two games.
How nice.'
In the mean time the first . man at
the bat, after two strikes and five balls,
popped a high fly to short-center field,
and started to first like a bird. The
ball was caught, and he set out leisure
ly for home.
"What made that man run?" was the
next question. . !
. "He wanted to get to first'
"What's first?'?
"That bag yonder.' "
"Why didn't he go? Was he afrak
that the man standing on the bap
wouldn't like. it?"j
"That must Lave been it," said
George, in despair.
In a few moments Cleveland went
out and started for the ficM, while Bos
ton reversed the movement .
"What is that for?
The Clevelands are out The Bos
tons go to the bat"
"Oh!"
Just then a Boston slugger struck a
liner for two bases and started on his
tour.
"By Jove.
George.
that's a daisy," said
Maud understood this. "Yes," said
she, "1 think so too. I've been watch
ing him, and he's real handsome. But
George," she said, as the bean eater
stole third, "he! doesnt't care a bit
whether the Clevelands like it or not
He's going right! on. and I think its
real mean, as he's a visitor."
Thejiext Boston hitter struck too
short and was caught at first but it
brought in the run from the third.
That's a run,'? said George.
' "And is that a run, too, that man
walking in?" j
"No, that's an out'
How much does an 'out' count?"
One."
"An I how muc
One, too."
does a run count?"
"Then an out counts one
and a run.
two. Tli3y' ve made
four haven't
they?" j
George collapsed. When the game
was over Maude said she was beginning
to understand it j "real well," and i
going every day. Her swain is a re
formed man, and hasn't been able to
getaway" since to go to a game.
Hartford Times.
Kewspsrer Editorials In Turkey.
It will be interesting, I think, to the
people of such a free country as Am
erica to read the extract translation o'
the language the newspapers have to
use in Turkey, no matter what national
ity they may be. An Armenian
college in Turkey was totaly ruined by
fire through some Mohammedan in
cediaries, and, though the case was
quite clear to the courts, yet because of
their being Mohammedans the Armen
ians wiil hnd ssome difficulty in secur
ing their conviction. The following is
an exact translation Of an editorial of
the leading Armenian newspaper, call-
ed Arevelk, published in Constanti
nople, giving an account of this fire,
and .inviting the attention of the au
thorities to punish the parties who caus
ed the fire:
"We aga'n publish a minute descrip
tion we have received of the burning ol
the Armenian College in the city o
Divrig, begging at tho same time the
pity and sympathy of his august ma
jesty of our Ottoman fatherly sovereign
over this sad ruin of the college, which
was built with so much expense and
hard labor, and was reduced to ashes
in a moment The good and virtuous
will of our august sovereign Sultan
Hamid, which is as clear as the sun, and
whose sovereignty's motto has always
been to give particular care and atten
tion to the great work of education and
discipline, according to the require
ments of the century, undoubtedly as
sures us that this ruinod condition o.'
the college will invite the august Sultan
to be well pleased to wash away, with
his fatherly, most pitiful and merciful
grace-bestowing drops of favor, the
tears of his many hundreds of obedient
and grateful ' children who arc in so
great need of education."
Editors of American papers would
not enjoy being forced to write in that
strain. Constantinople Letter.
A Needed Prescription.
Bride. "I must have your advice,
doctor. My husband gets the night
mare nearly every night and frightens
me half to death. '
Doctor. "You have gone to house
keeping, I suppose?"
"Bride. Yes; we just got settled last
week." '
Doctor. "And, I presume, as there
are only two in the family, you attend
to all 'the housekeeping duties your
self P"
Bride. "Yes."
. Doctor. "Well, hire some one else
to do the cooking.' Philadelphia Call.
A Boston boarding mistress broke
her leg by jumping from a second-story
window in her efforts to avoid a kettle
in the hands of a boarder man who dis
liked the corned beef. Boston Herald.
FARM AJiD HOUSEHOLD.
Scarlet clover is a valuable beo
plant but is an annual. Exchange.
In skimming the cream off the milk.
says an old dairyman, there should al
ways be milk enough skimmed with thoj
cream to give the butter, when churned,
a bright, clean look.
Carrots, potatoes, parsnips andbeetsi
are heat producing, while vegetables;
that form above ground, such as aspar
agus, lettuce, peas, beans, corn, cabbage'
and tomatoes, are cooling. CJucago
Journal. Mr Joseph Harris, an authority on
sheep raising, says be finds no more
trouble in raising early lambs than lato
ones. He would rather have his lambs
come in January and Febuary than in
April and May. Albany Journal.
The niirht before a picnic boil some
eggs until they are very hard; then drop
mem into a can or jar in wncu you .
have some piokled beets. In tha morn
ing the eggs will be" pink and will bo
delicately iiavored. If possible carry
them in a can with the vinegar still on
them.
. A handsome low screen is made by
painting a large card board a sky blue,
then painting a spray of daisies and
clover blossoms on it Then set this In
a frame of plush about an inch and a
half wide, and this is to be placed In a
light ebony frame with a standard.
Cincinnati Times.
The American Agriculturist has a
description of a barrel barrow for carry
ing liquids. A barrel, open at tho top, is
fitted into the frame of an ordinary bar
row with cleats, about one-third being
below the top of the frame. It can be
advantageously employed in carrying
slops to hogs or cattle and water for
plants. '
The-Slock Breeder's Journal says
that over-loading horses is both stupid
and wicked, and strains the nerves of the
eyes, for which the only remedy is to
wash the eyes two or three times daily
with a mild extract of witch hazel or
some good eye water. When this strain
ing is severe nothing will cure it and the
horse usually becomes blind.
A writer in the New York Tribune
says he has found a good method to
trap wire worms to be by "putting
pieces of potatoes in the ground with a
stick stuck in them to mark their posi
tion. The worms gather on the po
tatoes, and are quickly destroyed.
This year wire worms were destroying
Prof. Tracey's melon and cucumber
vines by eating off the roots. He put
the potato traps in the soil and Urns
saved the vines from destruction."
Feeding Hones.
Yes, sir,' said the proprietor of a
large livery stable, "people Imagine
when they hear the quality of oats men
tioned that their desirable qualities con
sist in their brightness of color, purity
of scent and freedom from all appear
ances of having been damp or heated,
but they rarely advert to the fact that
when these objects have been attained
their true value yet rests in their weight
and a material difference may be found
in samples which, to the hand and eye
of one who is a good judge of the arti
cle, may appear to bo nearly tho same
sort, though the bushel of the one sort
may be several pounds lighter than the
others! The horse that is fed upon
light weight oats, of which there are
plenty in the market is a loser by one-'
third the nutriment which he would ob
tain if fed with those of good quality,
and if this is not looked to, he will, on
long drives, fall off in condition, for the
price varies according to weight in some
places, and a good many stable keepers
take special care not to buy the heaviest.
I always bay the heaviest and cleanest
oats I can find in the market and this
is one reason why my stock looks well."
"How about hay?" was asked.
"Well, I also buy the best hay I can
find in the market because it does not
pay to purchase a poor quality. In
many stables there is a great waste by
allowing horses an unlimited use of it
which tempts them to eat too much. I
give all my horses only small quantities
at a time but feed more frequently.
With small quantities the animals seem
to eat slower, masticate it more thor
oughly and it then affords the most
nourishment. You see all my horses
look well, and have a clean coat with
every appearance of good health. This
is acquired by giving them a sufficiency
of wholesome food not too much but
administered according to the length
and amount of work the animal has to
perform." U. S. Veterinary Journal.
Neuralgia and Headache.
Nothing is so terrible as soyere neu
ralgia, and beyond a doubt girls ac
quire it often enough by the conditions
of school life. Headaches in a school
girl usually mean exhausted nerve-
power through over-work, over-excitc-ment
over-anxiety, or-bad air. Rest
a good laugh, or a country walk" will
usually 'cure it readily enough to begin.
with. But to become subject to head
aches is a very serious matter, and all
such nervous diseases have a nasty ten
dency to recur, to become periodic, to
be set up by the same causes, to be
come an organic habit of the body. For
any woman to become liable to neural
gia is a most terrible thing. It means
that while it lasts life is not worth hay-,
ing. It, paralyzes the power to work,
it deprives her of the power to enjoy
anything, it tends toward irritability of
temper, it tempts to the use of narcotics
and stimulants. So says Dr. Nelson,
and so say L A girl who finds herself
subject to neuralgia should at once
change her habits if but to grow strong"
in body. Of what use is education with
ill-health? A happy girl must be a
healthy one. The Greeks educated!
their girls physically; we educate ours
mentally. The Greek mother bore the
finest children the world ever produced.
Dr. Holbrook, in his, great works on
marriage and parentage, gives achap
tcr on the Grecian education of girls..
He claims it comes very near to the edu
cation we need for them to-day, and we
quite agree with him. "It developed
beautiful women, and their beauty
lasted till old age. The beautiful Helen
was as handsome at fifty as at sweet
sixteen. Dio Lewis' Monthly,-
A new survev of the Hudson River
between Troy and Hudson has been or
dered. Troy Times.